Life in Sweden: With Excursions in Norway and Denmark

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Стр. 22 ... a coachmaker from whom I hired a carriage , because I had only heard him
called Mr . Coachmaker . Wives take their husbands ' titles , and are quite as
tenacious of them . Thus , you address a clergyman as Priest , and his wife as
Priestess ...

Стр. 62 The entertainment began with a lecture delivered by a literary priest . Then there
was a song from an English opera - singer , who styles herself Signora Normani ,
a nice and interesting person : a very pretty native one , who is about to leave ...

Стр. 96 The Swede took me to the Priests . Soon after we came in , we were presented
with chocolate , which I thought a rather heavy preparative for dinner . This was
served twice with cakes . So something whispered to me that the dinner had
been ...

Стр. 139 At the upper end of the apartment , a handsome youth of one - and - twenty was
standing beside a blackrobed solemn - looking priest , who , with snuff - box in
hand , was applying to it , and speaking to him alternately . What affinity has a ...

Стр. 140 by some voices at the door ; and a few persons who were entering came forward
, and , with the help of the young bridegroom , who had been standing beside the priest , removed the altar a little to one side . This ceremony , I had been told ...

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Стр. 301 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...

Стр. 336 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.